Never let it be said that President Donald Trump doesn't pick people who know how to get his message out. Case in point: Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who was given a huge job at a remarkably young age, and who is absolutely putting steel on target in every encounter with the media.
On Thursday, she took to her official X account to launch a brilliant deconstruction of Democrat talking points on the economy.
The notion that the same radical Democrats who just shut down the federal government, sabotaged our economy, robbed people of their paychecks, and also helped Joe Biden ratchet up inflation to 9% suddenly are now affordability champions is completely absurd – and it's something… pic.twitter.com/C7ycXZmz93
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) November 13, 2025
The post is a long one, so let's look at some highlights. She begins:
The notion that the same radical Democrats who just shut down the federal government, sabotaged our economy, robbed people of their paychecks, and also helped Joe Biden ratchet up inflation to 9% suddenly are now affordability champions is completely absurd – and it's something only the liberal media would have the gall to claim.
Here are the facts:
President Trump and his Administration have done a lot to lower prices and increase the economic prosperity of the American people in less than 10 short months.
All this is still a work in progress. The American economy is like one of those super-huge tankers carrying crude oil; it's big, complicated, cumbersome, and can't turn on a dime. But turning it is, away from the malaise, if you will, of the feckless and incompetent Biden administration.
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A lot of the press secretary's points were outcomes of the One Big Beautiful Bill. Here are a couple of big ones:
President Trump signed the largest middle-class tax cuts in history, including No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, and No Tax on Social Security to guarantee that Americans keep more of their hard-earned money.
It's been a known economic principle since well before the Laffer Curve was a thing: If you want to spur an economy, make it easier for businesses to, well, do business. Cutting taxes is a great way to do that. It usually results in increased government revenues if done judiciously; that's the lesson of the Laffer Curve, finding that sweet spot between over-taxation and no taxation. It's a moving target, but I think we're closer to it now.
The President unleashed American energy dominance to help bring gasoline prices to the lowest in 5 years and also lower energy costs overall (this is key because we know energy costs are the number one driver of inflation).
This is a big one; for my money, it's the big one. Energy costs are at the heart of everything we do, every purchasing decision we make, from a candy bar to a house. Probably the fastest way to kick-start an economic boom is to ensure that energy of all kinds - electricity, gasoline and diesel fuel, natural gas - are cheap, reliable, and abundant. President Trump has made that a priority. Up here in Alaska, we're already seeing the boom starting. We'll see more of this in the Permian Basin, in the Gulf of America, everywhere.
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There's more to this than gas, oil, and coal. The president has signed at least three executive actions aimed at jump-starting nuclear power:
Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy
Reinvigorating the Nuclear Industrial Base
Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security
Nuclear power, as I have said and written for years, is an essential piece of our energy future. It's all about energy density; every major advancement in mankind's standard of living has been accompanied by an increase in the energy density of a society's primary fuel, from wood and dung to charcoal to coal to oil and gas. Nuclear power is the next step in that vital progression.
And here are the results:
Wages are rising at the fastest pace of the start of a presidential administration in 60 years.
The cost of the typical new mortgage is down by nearly $3,000 dollars a year.
Things are moving ahead. So far, it's not quite Ronald Reagan's Morning in America, but we're getting there. President Trump and his administration have a little over a year with guaranteed Republican control of Congress - a little over three years if the midterms go well. Let's hope they sprint every step of the way.
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